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How Do We Become High Status People?
We look up to people who are like us, but we also seem to be more jealous of them. This is because they are the clearest evidence of our own inadequacy. So in those groups in which we evolve, you now young people identify high status people from which to learn. The brain goes wel, this person's high status. I want to become high status. If tiy do everything that they're doing, oteno. It all work. And so these very ancient, evolve mechanisms switch on. Even if en bodys never gong to meet that person, they just switch on thand webec and so, you know, you'll notice that im people read